State Specific Question About: HAWAII (HI)

Have a court evicted tenant. Lease expired at the end of August. Went to court, ordered eviction at the end of OctoberTenant stayed 7 days in November because he said he couldn't find a place. He only started moving his thing out after I told him he had 14days to remove his items by the 28th. Tenant now wants two days and the end of the 14 days. Question does he have the right to pick the dates. I have given him available dates except for 4 days / I work 48 hour shifts. If so can require him give specific dates and times he can retrieve his things and garbage.

I have a court date on the 28th for damages

What does your court order say?

State laws are different in each state.

We've only had one eviction - back in 2008. Once the court awarded us the judgment for possession, I remember going directly to the clerk's office to sign and pay for a "writ of possession" which gave the tenant a certain number of days (either 5 or 10 days back then?) to move out or the sheriff's deputy would be there to physically remove the tenant.

The current law in Virginia gives the tenant 10 days once the writ of possession is provided to the tenant. (The writ of possession in Virginia would best be obtained immediately after the eviction hearing before leaving the courthouse, but it must be requested within 180 days. If not requested within 180 days, the landlord must start the eviction process all over again.)

State laws are very specific regarding the details of how to provide the writ of eviction to the tenant and about how to deal with possessions left behind by the tenant, etc. You would work with local law enforcement to set a time to meet at the property for physical eviction if the delinquent tenant does not move out voluntarily.

If you wanted to speed things up, you could offer "cash for keys" and search for information about that on this landlord forum.

Or you could probably bluff and say that you are going back to court on the 28th and that he needs to be completely out before then since he wouldn't want law enforcement to come and remove him (you wouldn't actually be giving a specific date that law enforcement would remove him, since you probably couldn't get that set up to occur before your court date on the 28th).

Sometimes it could be more profitable to use the "cash for keys" approach if it helps to get the property back sooner so it could be re-rented sooner.

If possible, sue for any unpaid rent. Any day into the next day counts as a month. You may never see it but it will be on the judgement. What exactly is the move out date? In my state, if not gone I can employ the Sheriff's Dept. Have the licks been changed by court order? If yes, then I would dictate when removal can be done. If they still have possession, then they can. Once again, every day they are there into a month, I would go for as well as any and all damages, including light bulbs. Be reasonable though and be able to back it up.

Honestly - is there REALLY anything they have that you would want? In most cases the answer is NO. Their items are a liability for you.